Most of the traditional home space lighting is dominated by downlights, but along with the consumer upgrading, people are more and more in favor of minimalist design, no main light design and other styles, and the emergence of curved linear lamps and lanterns, but also make the linear lighting in different spaces have more plasticity.

Nowadays, linear lighting has been widely used not only in architectural, commercial and office spaces, but also in different locations in the home to bring a refreshing and unique visual effect.

Let’s take a look at the areas of the home where linear lighting can be used：

1. Living room

The living room as the main home facade bear, whether through the installation of light in the light groove strip, with other downlights, so that the living room light and shadow effect is more rich sense of hierarchy, and better able to bake the atmosphere; or directly on the wall or ceiling installation of linear lamps, through the lines outline the space, so that the original single boring living room to become a more spatial sense, but also play a role in delineating the area of space.

2. Bedroom

With the popularity of the no main light design trend over the years, many people like to replace the traditional main light in the home with light in the light trough. And making linear lighting in the background wall and light trough in the bedroom can make the whole space look more sense of atmosphere.

And the way to install the light strip under the bed, it is more able to make the effect of low lighting to meet the needs of getting up and moving at night.

3. Kitchen

Whether it is a closed kitchen, or open kitchen, installing line lights in different locations of the cabinet to achieve different effects: ① installing light strips on the cabinet, through indirect lighting, pulling up the sense of space; ② installing light strips in the cabinet can increase the convenience of picking up and placing dishes;

4. Bathroom

Installing light strips in your bathroom can make it more stylish and moody.

5. Aisle

Aisle as the home of the important transition between the various areas of the place, we can install a strip of light in the foot position, in the provision of basic lighting, play a role in guiding the line of action, at the same time, the line comes with a sense of extension, but also make the aisle looks longer, more spacious!

6. Stairs

Staircase is also very commonly used to line lighting, for the stairs, generally we will be in the wall, stair plywood, staircase handrail installation of light strips. This can guide the route on the one hand, on the other hand, it is also convenient to get up at night, you can through the luminous effect of the staircase light strip, to enhance safety and convenience.

After understanding the application of linear lighting, let’s take a look at how linear fixtures can be installed and spliced. Generally speaking, the common lamps used in linear lighting are light strips, light tubes, hard light strips, and linear lamps.

1. Installation

Depending on the linear fixture, conventional mounting can be categorized into the following types of mounting:

2. However, the above installation method destroys the spatial integration effect due to the more prominent lamps, and now we use more architectural lighting profiles.

3. Joining method：

a. Sunny corner splices: convex corners of walls.

b. Shaded corner splices: recessed corners of walls.

c. Flat corner splicing: same horizontal plane.

Note

There are a few things that designers should be aware of when doing linear lighting:

a.Traditional bright line lighting can be installed after hardwiring, but architecturally integrated fixtures, such as lighting profiles have to be installed together with the hardwiring, and cannot be changed after installation.

b. Although line lighting is very flexible and changeable in design, it cannot be changed after the hard installation is completed.

c. When designing the slotting, pay attention to the priority of avoiding the keel, because opening and cutting the keel will destroy the stability of the building structure.